What started out as a blog for book reviews and a gathering of friends in a book club, has grown into a one-stop shop for book-related solutions. We are now a bookstore, a book café, a book box service, and a book club.
Our new physical location is: Suite 12, Ground Floor, West Wing, The Greenhouse Mall, Ngong Rd, Nairobi.
A Broken People’s Playlist is a collection of short stories with underlying themes so beautifully woven that each story flows into the other seamlessly. From its poignant beginning in “Lost Stars” a story about love and it’s fleeting, transient nature to the gritty, raw musical prose encapsulated in “In The City”, a tale of survival set in the alleyways of the waterside. A Broken People’s Playlist is a mosaic of stories about living, loving and hurting through very familiar sounds, in very familiar ways and finding healing in the most unlikely places.
The stories are also part-homage and part-love letter to Port Harcourt (the city which most of them are set in). The prose is distinctive as it is concise and unapologetically Nigerian. And because the collection is infused with the magic of evocative storytelling, everyone is promised a story, a character, to move or haunt them.
You know when we take a break it’s because we are working on something grand! We paused our book boxes so we could rebrand and make it a value add product, incorporating all your feedback.
Re-introducing the Soma Nami Book Box – revamped, rebranded and so much value for you our dear clients. We have curated our current Holiday Book box as the perfect gift for yourself and your loved ones.